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Like Adams, the Davenport hoopmen have mopped up the floor with their rivals. Which, say the Goldcoasters, means nothing. On Wednesday the Adams machine, with only one substitute, was edged by the Yardlings by a on point margin, despite Flash Hauck's 15 points. Final standings in inter-House squash: League A Won Lost Dunster 21 9 Eliot 19 10 Lowell 19 11 Adams 17 13 Winthrop 12 18 Leverett 10 20 Kirkland 6 23 League C Won Lost Adams 22 8 Eliot 20 10 Lowell 18 12 Dunster 14 16 Winthrop 14 16 Leverett 13 17 Kirkland...
...playing a tune like Annie Laurie almost as simple as swatting flies on a windowpane. The principle is the same as that of the old-fashioned player piano, minus that part of the machinery which does the actual pressing & releasing of the keys. A motor-driven player-roll mechanism flashes a light beneath each transparent key at the moment when it should be struck. Wherever the student sees a flash he pounces. While the Piano Master requires a specially built piano, a modification, the Key Master, may be fitted to any old family upright. The Key Master flashes lights...
...used a special fast camera of a type previously used by Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, ingenious lightning observer of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader...
Harry Donaldson was made playing manager by acclamation and the team will be chosen from among officers George DePinto, Fred Sennott, William Lawrence, "Speed" Kelly, Christy Morris, Matt Toohy, Bill "Flash" Graney, and "Shuffle" Wilson, pinch-hitter...
Captain Traf Hicks and Goaler Wint Freedley, unlike their team-mates, had a pretty easy time of it. For they played with the Bruins liens. Traf paired with Flash Hollett on defense and picked up a few valuable pointers. Vint had only to stop occasional attempts of the Crimson lines and a shot or two from the stick of burly Jack Portland who was the only other defenseman there besides Hoilett...